--- title: Zayn Malik on Asking Gigi Hadid Out description: Zayn Malik appeared on a Sirius XM radio show and didn't give many details about how he first started his relationship with Gigi Hadid. canonical: https://time.com/4604689/zayn-malik-asking-gigi-hadid-out/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-12-16T17:16:52.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T09:04:09.398Z og:title: Zayn Malik Won’t Kiss and Tell About His Relationship With Gigi Hadid og:description: 'A gentleman never tells the full details' og:url: https://time.com/4604689/zayn-malik-asking-gigi-hadid-out/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbf70b3011bb5c874/6988b33fa988ca4a1a6ba782/zayn-malik-gigi-hadid-relationship.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Givenchy : Front Row - Paris Fashion Week Womenswear Spring/Summer 2017 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Zayn Malik Won’t Kiss and Tell About His Relationship With Gigi Hadid twitter:description: 'A gentleman never tells the full details' twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbf70b3011bb5c874/6988b33fa988ca4a1a6ba782/zayn-malik-gigi-hadid-relationship.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Zayn Malik Won’t Kiss and Tell About His Relationship With Gigi Hadid by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Dec 16, 2016 5:16 PM UTC  PARIS, FRANCE - OCTOBER 02: Zayn Malik and Gigi Hadid attend the Givenchy show as part of the Paris Fashion Week Womenswear Spring/Summer 2017 on October 2, 2016 in Paris, France. (Photo by Dominique Charriau/WireImage) PARIS, FRANCE - OCTOBER 02: Zayn Malik and Gigi Hadid attend the Givenchy show as part of the Paris Fashion Week Womenswear Spring/Summer 2017 on October 2, 2016 in Paris, France. (Photo by Dominique Charriau/WireImage)Dominique Charriau—WireImage/Getty Images by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Dec 16, 2016 5:16 PM UTC The saying “don’t kiss and tell” applies pretty accurately for former One Direction singer-turned-solo-artist [Zayn Malik](http://time.com/4551320/zayn-malik-anxiety/) and his supermodel girlfriend [Gigi Hadid](http://motto.time.com/4596495/gigi-hadid-thyroid-disease/). Zayn may be open to [singing about sex](http://time.com/4199569/zayn-malik-pillowtalk-video-gigi-hadid/), but he won’t exactly give any more details when he isn’t behind the microphone. Zayn just launched a [collaboration song](http://time.com/4596348/taylor-swift-zayn-fifty-shades-darker-song/) with Taylor Swift for _Fifty Shades Darker_ and during an interview on Sirius XM discussed whether or not he and Gigi channel their inner Christian Grey and Anastasia Steele, [according](http://www.elle.com/culture/celebrities/news/a41456/gigi-hadid-and-zayn-malik-fifty-shades-sex-life-sirius-xm) to _Elle_. The radio hosts for Sirius show [The Morning Mash Up](https://twitter.com/MorningMashUp?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw) hounded Zayn about sex and his relationship with Hadid. After saying he had never seen _Fifty Shades of Grey_, one DJ suggested that Zayn’s “lived the movie.” The singer laughed it off and mumbled, “I like that.” After that, he kept mum about his sex life. Whether or not he keeps it PG is his business only. While one DJ expressed ardent enthusiasm for the _Fifty Shades_ series, another DJ couldn’t stop asking Zayn about Hadid and how they became a couple. He mentioned how Hadid was “more beautiful in person” and asked Zayn, “For all the guys out there, how did you land her?” Zayn, who didn’t have some secret formula for “landing” Hadid like she was a plane, explained how went about courting Hadid in a relatively traditional way. “I just asked her, it was pretty straight up, I just asked her if she wanted to go on a date,” he explained. “A gentleman never tells the full details, but we met, and we spoke and we went on a date.” > [](https://twitter.com/SiriusXMHits1/status/809068089165881344) \[[Elle](http://www.elle.com/culture/celebrities/news/a41456/gigi-hadid-and-zayn-malik-fifty-shades-sex-life-sirius-xm)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4604689/zayn-malik-asking-gigi-hadid-out/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4604689/zayn-malik-asking-gigi-hadid-out/"},"headline":"Zayn Malik Won’t Kiss and Tell About His Relationship With Gigi Hadid","datePublished":"2016-12-16T17:16:52.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T09:04:09.398Z","description":"'A gentleman never tells the full details'","url":"https://time.com/4604689/zayn-malik-asking-gigi-hadid-out/","keywords":["motto"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbf70b3011bb5c874/6988b33fa988ca4a1a6ba782/zayn-malik-gigi-hadid-relationship.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbf70b3011bb5c874/6988b33fa988ca4a1a6ba782/zayn-malik-gigi-hadid-relationship.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Givenchy : Front Row - Paris Fashion Week Womenswear Spring/Summer 2017","caption":"Givenchy : Front Row - Paris Fashion Week Womenswear Spring/Summer 2017","creditText":"Dominique Charriau—WireImage/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/motto/","name":"motto"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4604689/zayn-malik-asking-gigi-hadid-out/","name":"Zayn Malik Won’t Kiss and Tell About His Relationship With Gigi Hadid"}}]}] ```